The distributor-turned-filmmaker claims the medium is on the way out — but that hasn't stopped him from doing something special with it. “Being dead is not the same thing as not existing — many things ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield will star in the film as a young Karl Rove and Lee Atwater in “College Republicans,” which topped ...

James Schamus has been through many career stages. For 12 years, he ran Focus Features, bringing the sensibilities of a veteran independent producer and cinephile into the studio arena, where he ...

James Schamus has long been a huge figure in the world of independent film. In the early 1990's he and Ted Hope founded the production company Good Machine, where they released movies which launched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Focus Features CEO James Schamus, best known for producing Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning “Brokeback Mountain” and Lee’s other ...

The former CEO of Focus Features commended the two for the way they handled a difficult situation. READ MORE: Why the ‘Moonlight’ Oscar Upset Was Even Wilder If You Were in the Room “Back in the day, ...

The film industry came out of the Park City snow Friday night to fete Focus Features CEO James Schamus as he accepted The Hollywood Reporter’s third annual Indie Icon of the Year award. By Gregg ...

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm) and his producer partner James Schamus are dialing back to 1969 in their current project Taking Woodstock. Based on a true story, ...

In a dramatic makeover, Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley has engineered for Peter Schlessel to take over Focus Features from long-tenured CEO James Schamus. The hire is effective in January, ...